Look up: perestroika

1. perestroika
   [n] - an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union
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2. perestroika
   In Soviet politics, the wide-ranging economic and political reforms initiated from 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev, finally leading to the demise of the Soviet Union. Originally, in the economic sphere,...
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3. perestroika
   noun an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy
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4. perestroika
   (from the article `Union of Soviet Socialist Republics`) Perestroika concentrated initially on economic reform. Enterprises were encouraged to become self-financing, cooperatives were set up by groups of ... ...a market economy with the dictatorship of the Communist Party in China during the 1980s and `90s. In fact, the Soviet leader Mi...
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5. perestroika
   perestroika (pur'estroy'ku) , Soviet economic and social policy of the late 1980s. Perestroika [restructuring] was the term attached to the attempts (1985–91) by Mikhail Gorbachev to transform the stagnant, inefficient command economy of the Soviet Union into a decentralized market-ori...
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6. Perestroika
   `Perestroika` ( )--> (literally: Restructuring) was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political a...
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7. Perestroika
   (video game) `Perestroika` (also known as `Toppler`) is a Russian computer game released by a small software developer called Locis (Nikita Skripkin, Aleksander Okrug and Dmitry Chikin, currently - NIKITA software) in the Soviet Union in 1990/1991, and named after Mikhail Gorbachev`s policy o...
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